Southern Military District: winter exercises of 10 thousand servicemen began at more than 30 training grounds in southern Russia 
More than 10 thousand Russian military personnel will take part in the south of the country, the press service of the Southern Military District (YuVO) said, writes TASS.
Winter exercises
Motorized rifle formations marched to training grounds in the south of Russia, where training maneuvers started. As noted in the Ministry of Defense, about a third of the subdivisions of all formations and military units of the district will begin the winter training period for the new academic year. The personnel will be accommodated in autonomous field camps APL-500. They will be built on the basis of the main training grounds.
More than 10 thousand servicemen as part of battalion tactical groups of motorized rifle formations of the Southern Military District marched to the areas of combined arms training grounds.
Press service of the Southern Military District during winter exercises
“Combat coordination of squads, crews and crews was organized as part of the first training module at more than 30 combined-arms training grounds,” the press service emphasized.
In 2021, for the first time, winter exercises began at the Nesterovsky training grounds in Ingushetia and Danilovsky – in the Volgograd region. Some of the servicemen will carry out command assignments in places of permanent deployment.
The modular training system, organized on a rotational basis, provides a comprehensive training of all units during each month.
press service of the YUVO on organizing military training On November 29, it became known that the troops of the Union State were organizing new training sessions on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border. Minsk, together with Moscow, “in the medium term” plans to conduct maneuvers to cover the southern part of the border of Belarus, said Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin.
We are planning to conduct exercises jointly with our colleagues, the main strategic ally – the Russian Federation.
Viktor Khrenin, Minister of Defense of Belarus on forthcoming maneuvers Military maneuvers
In October, Russia and Belarus agreed to continue to strengthen bilateral cooperation and have planned a number of other events until 2024. The approved plan for bilateral military cooperation for 2022 includes 139 events.
In 2023, the most ambitious event will be the “Union Shield” (on the territory of Belarus, the exercises are called “West”).
Countries held a major exercise from 10 to 15 September 2021. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, about 200 thousand soldiers, up to 760 pieces of equipment and 15 ships took part in them. Joint strategic maneuvers are a planned event and are held every two years in accordance with the decision of the presidents of the two states.